Scotland and Slavery

While Scotland likes to promote its role in the abolition of slavery, the uncomfortable truth that Scots were also involved in the earlier exploitation of the practice has been somewhat erased from our history books. What was the real role of Scots in the slave trade and what was the legacy? Sir Tom Devine gives a lecture based on his book 'Recovering Scotland’s Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection'
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